El Paradigma Perdido (by Edgar Morin) and The Denial of Death (by Ernest Becker) tells us that homo sapiens are also demens as both reason and folly, wisdom and dementia are ontologically inseparable from the moment that human thinking enters the world of words. Thus the dialectic binary order/disorder we live in is born (Lacan).

Man is the result of a complex and ambivalent natural structural essence. Man is the result of panic/cowardice caused by the overwhelming uncertainty of fear, of the unknown and finally death (Becker).

The man’s demens is the specular mirror reversed of sapiens, and is the dualistic dialectic of opposites; demens/sapiens is something that cannot be resolved in favor of either of the two extremes. There is no end to the potential uncertainty that characterizes humans, and the internal existential conflict will always exist to the extent of the human species survival. Here on this dilemma, the self-awareness of death is a pivotal moment, because it represents a decisive break, a traumatic tear with quiet immediacy of existence that characterizes them with the rest of the animal species.

In the belief that all life is perishable, the finiteness=death is imposed as a fundamental attribute of the existing, with the addition that the human’s have always refused to accept that finitude. Thus, most cultural societal projects have always been aimed at eradicating these uncertainties under the weight of supersensible symbolic cultural constructions destined to continue our civilization.

It only arises culturally, for example, on the idea of man’s ​​immortality, articulated by causa sui, a project giving a sense of purpose and dignifies man’s sacrifices mediated by myth, magic, creeds (and now by science too) (Becker). But all these artificial cultural devices are vain attempts to suture the ‘original split’ (Freud/Lacan), which tailed all pretenses of building strong truthful being’s identities.

Man dispossessed of his true-self, and the world becoming trascendentalize, then is artificially and epically idealized (heroes/heroines/villains, etc.) and culturally comodify (marketing value) in unimaginable ways, creating an illusional world for most of us. We all know that this illusion cultural project in itself cannot avoid the crude “reality” of finitude. Man can only placate this finitude for a self-closure and final acceptance by way of one’s personal mental conciliation -mostly introjected into cultural devices.

The man’s demens goes hand in hand with the cultural identity concept, it comes with special virulence in seeking a transcendental truth, but no absolute identity vocation can be sustained if it is not appealing to the fund and idolatrous exclusionary violence that dwells inside the human psyche. Any attempt to claim something good (culturally) also directly implies its double negation of what is left out of the selection.

The result of this split consciousness is thus being devoured by enormous anxiety and neurotically conflicted (and secretly) sinks into further existential crisis (chronic depression) as he/she ages. Their existence becomes an agonizing process to articulate an identity of true-self throughout a life time that protects the subject from the devastating reality chaired by the certainty of final finitude. Death is a transcendental denial and leads him to the creation of a mental imaginary world artificially populated by doubles characters (fantasious illusions and delusional alter-egos), as well as superstitious fear of ghosts, gods, angels, demons, remorse and guilt, etc. (Becker)

Man does not accept the reality of death, but at the same time, the awareness of it impending, allows him to exist as a man (as Homo sapiens and demens). As Morin and Becker expressed, we see with clean lacking eyes but mediated by all the artificial cultural-bridges that have tried and try to tie the fateful final gap filling in with paramount devices of: paradigms, fables, beliefs, myths, magic, religion, ideologies, theories, and thematics. All of that enable us to feel with a purpose, heroic and saved us in the grand scheme of things, i.e. our immortality as a perennial legacy continues.

“A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.” -Aldus Huxley – Brave New World

“In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.” -George Orwell- 1984

Flying autonomous machines equipped with destructive bombs, laser missiles and surveillance are no longer science fiction in today’s world. There will be about 10,000 small and large sized drones flying over people’s houses in less than five years on U.S’s soil, according to the FAA. (here)

Think of drones peeping at its target from a thousand feet in the sky, stealthily, quietly like an eagle stalking its pray for more than twenty hours, while down below, the target is sipping coffee on Starbucks’s sunny patio unaware of being photographed.

This drone civil transgression, all of a sudden, for leftist/liberals and right/conservatives wingers is an undemocratic issue for a nation that praises individuality, liberty, privacy and political consensus protected by the Bill of Rights. Of course, today this is not the case, aerial drones is an everyday reality for all of us now flying in our own national territory and we better get used to the feeling of being permanently panoptized by its glossy eyes, drones are here to stay whether for good or bad. (here, video)

Thereby, the court’s “due processes” won’t help the village commoners anymore and the fourth amendment of the civil rights becomes just graffiti on paper and it no longer matters as we move further into an era of surveillance of aerial drones. It is just a matter of time for America’s drones flying Middle East skies to move back to their homeland to roost. Now, drones are the Pentagon’s responsibility once owned by the CIA’ invincible hands. Drones in the Pentagon’ ownership can be used as they deem necessary into the heartland of America in the name of Home Land Security, in fact, they are already in used. (read more hereand here)

The next generations of peeping-psychopath are the autonomous-drones that are being built in massive numbers as the human population increases in the U.S. Law and order demands more operative’s cops and more surveillance eyes on the streets to keep derange bad guys and lost souls from killing bystanders and shooting at each other.

Although, drones are not only used for surveillance or killing purposes, as done in foreign land, but here in the U.S. the low cost of the unmanned aerial vehicles makes the drone-quest easy to follow (UVA), as the corpo-Honeywell put it succinctly: “[the] UVAs become simpler and less expensive to operate and maintain, they will be more and more suitable for mainstream commercial applications. One day soon, delivery companies such as UPS or FedEx could employ unmanned robotic flyers to deliver priority mail.” (read more hereand here)

As we learn, the 21th century of a new millennium drone’s future is right here at home, in fact, drones have always been here since Bill Clinton put the first one over Kosovo skies for surveillance purposes. Then under G. W. Bush and now Barack Obama who continues leading drones to fight terrorist.

Drones in the U.S., whether to drop mail or to spy on violent-non-states-actors are a jewel to surveilled underground blood-suckers: international terrorists, corrupted politicians, organized crimes, wife-cheaters, drug-cartel criminals, gangs and the like will be subjected to living-hell by the all-seeing eyeball powerful night-vision infrared cameras of drones. A glossy beautiful pics of 640/480 pixels footage resolution images will be shot to assess and re-assess a person without consent and awareness by federal or commercial-private drones. Then the images will be send back to the agency (or spouses) profiling the target for subpoena, arrest and public disclosure to be shown morbidly in the evening news. (read hereand here)

Of course, this idea of surveillance over civilians is an old theme. The Michael Foucault’ 24 hour camera civil watch of Panopticon, originally designed by the British social theorist, Jeremy Bentham is a relic matter when compared to the forthcoming semi-dystopian-police-state that America is urged to experience.

There is a tremendous pressure in the U.S. and the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security in view of increasing shooting and violence to fly drones in the U.S,’s skies. Therefore, American citizens are under pressure to give up another piece of their civil liberties in exchange for more personal security.

This new civil federal law and the use of surveillance drones is not a new phase of today’s society; it’s always been here, gravitating in our premonitional dystopian sci-fi literature known as a “surveillance-police-state”. This very mimesis of surveillance drone culture of this era in the U.S. is now the Zeitgeist of our time. (read hereand here)

Unfortunately, we are moving towards the Hobbesian path and the absolutism kingdom is approaching home a lot faster since America’s political demographic has shifted in favor of a more central government who is today more embedded into people’s lives than fifty years ago. This semi-Hobbes-dystopian of today’s society might seem asymmetric and even preposterous fictional for the general readers. But readers know that this issue is not farfetched or unrelated to us if we think about America’s perpetual war against terrorism; increasing pocket of poverty in our own country causing riots resentment, mass-world exodus immigration mostly coming to the U.S. and senseless psychopathic killings of children and bystanders undoubtedly requires swiftly attention from the government.

The United States, by Hobbesian analogy, keeps shifting further into the sixty year old visionary reading of George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four depicting a society of servants being watched 24 hours by the Big Brother. The Orwellian reading is a paramount story like no other as a mental-artifice predicating the current direction of the U.S. now being exemplified with the use of unmanned aerial drones as the independent, Mayor Bloomberg of NY succinctly put it: “better get used to it”. (read here)

With this new reality vs. fiction there are hundreds of premonitional writing and films toppling U.S.’s reality such as Brave New World, The Drowned World and lately, the Bourne Legacy (2012) depicting big brother-watch it’s secrets agents. In the Bourne Legacy film, drones controlled by CIA’s operatives are utilized to kill their own “assassin” agents. Once the agents are deemed no longer suitable for service, they become dangerous prospects for the agency and national security being ubiquitously under surveillance and suddenly killed. Is the Bourne Legacy a warning predictor film for the future of the U.S? I think so.

Such films and narratives are subliminal artifices extracted from our historical epistemology archive that has collected human events and national experiences over time. Many of these accumulated events are being recently emulated in epic-films such as Argo 2012; Lincoln (2012) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012) as well countless historical writing politicizing unfinished business. Without these ontological historical collections there wouldn’t be any sci-fi nor any genre or other literary artifices to sublime or transfer reality for that matter. Even “real science” without these Kairotic archives would be completely lost since we know that, after all, “science” is also a kind of myth.

Today, many liberal art colleges illustrate the ideological nuances from some of these historical collections. Some teachers depict them as a semi-dystopian societies focusing on contemporary political concerns about countries like North Korea, Cuba, China, Venezuela, Iran and other hot places in Central Africa as failed states.

These countries, in their calamitous state of affairs and their respective-mano-dura-strongman served us logistically for political purposes. It feeds the nation’s creeds of national identity invigorating the bases of democracy incrementing global power and dominance. The end result falls well onto the collective consciousness of Americans which in time such information is parsed apart by the Art-industry thus films are crafted, as writing, political-discourse and even PhDs theses all assembled upon this cultural archive of men’s production.

As we see, the purpose of sci-fi narratives, as an art-device, is to sublimate the timelessness of Kairotics nuances of past and present events-as the Romans and Greeks did once before. Today’s events, past myths, religions and politics are amalgamated with modern human desire as a wanted projection, best exemplified in some films such as: Start Trek, Start World, Minority Report, John Carter, Matrix, Dune, Avatar, Prometheus, Terminator, Judgment Day, etc.

Sci-fi’s genre is a lot more complex than just make money or enticing people’s attention that cannot be explained here in detail, but clearly, sci-fi has a twofold core connection to consider beyond its purely entertainment subtleties: 1) to raise national cultural consciousness as a prophecy and preparedness; and 2), sci-fi serve as predictor-device of unknown future events in relation to the role of evolving technology in today’s science in time and space where past, present, and future are fused into one. Part II exemplified more on these aspects. (read hereand here)

Of course, the genres of science-fiction, like any other surreal art device uncover hidden worlds of possible utopian, dystopian alien universes crafted with apocalyptical images of ourselves -as some sort of narcissistic flash where we can mirror our fate into the future. (no wonder why we love so much sci-fi) Nonetheless, sci-fi’s imaginary symbolic devices stimulate the mind of its creator opening windows of unimaginable visual images that tells us a lot more than just words.

Sci-fi, then, under this premise is no less real than the “fictional-product” of the 15th century testimonial artifacts of the visionary Renaissance man: Leonardo da Vinci and his rare flying devices. The old long bearded man was considered insane-loco-at the time by many skeptical eyes that thought his work was way subliminally utopic, as today‘s science fiction, and yet, he was handsomely rewarded by his opulent clients that loved his futuristic vision.

Today, it is not da Vinci doing visionary prestidigitization of tomorrow’s flying machines, but the science of drones where companies are reaping the profit by reading well into the future of automated aerial drones. (read more hereand here)

In the new film Oblivion: …“I don’t want those drones in the real world,” Cruise admits. “But sci-fi is dealing with humanity. It’s always dealing with future: man versus machine and identity; what do you believe, what don’t you believe. I think that kind of thing is told in a very unique way.”

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Marco Rubio

Marco Antonio Rubio is the junior United States Senator from Florida and member of the Republican Party. At the age of 39, he is the second youngest current U.S. Senator, being only one week older than Mike Lee of Utah. Rubio was the Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives during the 2007 and 2008 legislative sessions. He was first elected to the Florida House on January 25, 2000, from the 111th district.

Early Life

Rubio was born in Miami, Florida, the second son and third child of Cuban exiles Mario Rubio and Oria Garcia. His father was a bartender and his mother worked as a hotel housekeeper in Las Vegas, Nevada. Rubio lived in Las Vegas from 1979 to 1985, before his family returned to Miami in the summer of 1985. Rubio identifies as Catholic having been baptized, confirmed, and married in the Catholic Church. He is fluent in Spanish.

]]>Marco_Rubio_speech_drinking_from_water_bottle_20130213015046_320_240usaworldgazeMarco_Rubio_speech_drinking_from_water_bottle_20130213015046_320_240A Nation of Hispanic Immigrants The GOP Wants Badly for 2016….https://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/a-nation-of-hispanic-immigrants-the-gop-wants-badly-for-2016/
Wed, 30 Jan 2013 16:45:45 +0000http://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/?p=671Continue reading →]]>Leading Republicans, as senator, Marco Rubio, are out on the move with the Hispanic immigration reform issues, hoping that something good might arise in their behalf looking the grim Republican political future of 2016 presidential election (read more). Although, Mr. Obama is the one who have the real cajoles and upper hand against the GOP since he has his own immigration plan in case the bipartisan failed to close a deal for the 11 million undocumented (read here).

Even if the bipartisan is passed, some strategist thinks it is doubtful that the GOP might benefits by attracting potential voters to their side (read more here) The sluggish economic was a fact in 2012 for the democrat victory and it might be a deniable factor again that could change the Hispanic votes in the future, but for the time being the Democratic Party continues to be the substitute outlet for most Hispanics regardless their political affiliation, social class and incomes levels, then, the GOP has clearly a diminishing chance of gaining the majority Hispanic souls.

That Hispanic population – now more than 40 million plus 11 million undocumented as of 2011 – is as diverse as it is large. The Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, is out with a fascinating new study on America’s Hispanic population. It is well worth a read. Click here for more:

]]>usaworldgaze49immigrationnowPHC-2013-01-SP-01immigrationThe Culture Of Narcissism: Gun Cults, Addiction and Voracious Marketing Consumerism in the US Kills Peoplehttps://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/2012/12/23/the-culture-of-narcissism-gun-cults-addiction-and-voracious-marketing-consumerism-in-the-us-kills-people/
Sun, 23 Dec 2012 17:44:46 +0000http://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/?p=655Continue reading →]]>“Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life” –Media, Materialism, and Human Happiness.

What a better Christmas gift for sad times we live in nowadays, than a good enlightened reading of Christopher Lasch who’s writing touched the sensitive social pathology of our narcissistic culture (Western culture, for the matter), even if the book dates back to 1978. The book is still very current for a worsening/decaying society that lives by the stick of fear, paranoia, ill-rage and narcissistic demoralizing hatred toward subliminal objects as mere target.

Notice that I’m not advertising this book; rather, it is more a personal reading I’ve done in the past and now I want to share it with some of you who are interested in the psychology of US’s consumerism and fetish for guns. The social critic Christopher Lasch diagnosed narcissism as the signal social disorder of the existing American culture. He gives us a reasonable perspective to understand why the country worships guns and why it is as self-absorbed as a nation dislodged from the true reality of people’s lives whether in the past or present.

The cult of fame, the worship of marketing and immediate gratification, refusal of moral social codes and the creeds of politics were decaying signs of a society regressing toward the playground: the infant stage.

Here, there is no need for Freud’s psychoanalytic insights of the Culture of Narcissism. It is already out there and there have been so many shootings so far that I lost count; from Columbine, Colorado to California and recently, Newtown, Connecticut. Today we learned more and more about the killer’s morbid taste in music and their “lonely-wolf” appetite for violent video games. As Lanza’s addiction, sociopathic behavior and thrills for morbid videos licensed him to murder teachers and children. His explosive narcissistic-rage and hatred towards mom motivated him to transfer and do pain where it hurts the most, to kill the innocence he never had.

On the other hand, peoples’ personal egotism, self-immediate-gratification prevails over life’s simplicities for personal comfort and survival, and the balance between spirituality and materiality has become opaque in the public arena, only to surge into peoples’ lives when pain, attrition and suffering arise in an unpredictable horrific way. The reading of “The Culture Of Narcissism” makes you aware of what it is like living in a society where the Greek logo=marketing and consumption of commodities takes over people’s addictions and emptiness, thus falling prey to product’s gullibility.

We know that the very design of big corporations (and small business) is to make profit by way of feeding peoples’ inner desires, creating more needs based on anxieties and emptiness by appealing to their individual addictions (aren’t we all addicted to something?). That is why marketing commodities of all kinds fulfill the inner void illustrated explicitly (and sometimes in funny ads) on our TV commercials.

Thus, business in general, as exemplified recently in Time Magazine, a gossiped corp-business-media, advocated Barack Obama 2012 person of the year for the fourth time (wonder why?) I’m sure, Mr. Obama is a good man, a caring father and husband and perhaps, for some others, he isn’t such a good president. So marketing needs to build him as an icon-figure and raise him above a natural mortal being, to a supra-mortal entity. The media has done this portrayal since 2008. In fact, this is a false narcissistic divinization of a man for the sake of marketing-profits and political gain. Indeed, this is the way we construct and foster our heroes and heroines, the living and fallen ones which are culturally made, mostly for the sake of money and some other times to provide dignity for the sacrifices.

Obviously, for any smart reader, this is nothing more than a compulsive fetishization raw marketing-cult paid to Obama’s public-political-image to a pure hedonistic product of consumerism because it sells well. Here, Mr. Obama is just another cultural-product, a commodity of cultural-discourse to satisfy the collective lotophaguses of the population as any other product for sale. Lasch evokes this idea in the following way:

“Society reinforces these [narcissistic] patterns [of behavior in the family] not only through “indulgent education” and general pervasiveness but through advertising, demand creation, and the mass culture of hedonism. At first glance, a society based on mass consumption appears to encourage self-indulgence in its most blatant forms. Strictly considered, however, modern advertising seeks to promote not so much self-indulgence as self-doubt. It seeks to create needs, not to fulfill them; to generate new anxieties instead of allaying old ones. . .Yet the propaganda of commodities simultaneously makes [contemporary man] acutely unhappy with his lot. By fostering grandiose aspirations, it also fosters self-denigration and self-contempt.” (pp. 180-181).

I strongly believe that this egotistic narcissism and unhappiness of our culture is the direct result of the combination of consumerism, immediate-self-gratification and selfish individualism advocated by our corporate business elites and the politicians. The end result of the game is pure profits, power and sometimes ends in a gruesome killing of innocent lives!!

“The Culture Of Narcissism” is a powerful and accurate portrayal of an ailing society heading toward future totalitarianism (because that is where we are going as we see social moral decaying) as more urgent needed regulations are being imposed on the population especially in view of the recent emerging guns consumerism and mass killing thanks to corrupted/poising ill-used of our first and second amendment. These issues, among others, are in the hands of the corporation’s greed and political power seekers…. “More power, more money, more money more power”, according to the slogan of the riches Italian family of Medici (13th Century) who even owned Italy’s Catholic papacy.

I would highly recommend this book for every person that is interested in comprehending himself, society and the manipulation of symbolic public persona for pure profits. It will surely provide the reader with an educational experience and stunning psychoanalytic reading!

]]>usaworldgazeCulture of NarcissismThe GOP/Conservatives, Needs Less Traditional “Principals and Values” and a Lot More Spanish 101 to Win the 2016 elections…https://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/the-gopconservatives-needs-less-traditional-principals-and-values-and-a-lot-more-spanish-101-to-win-the-2016-elections/
Sun, 11 Nov 2012 17:01:03 +0000http://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/?p=638Continue reading →]]>As long as the GOP/Conservatives fire up “the nations children” with demeaning commentaries such as the quote below, the GOP/Conservatives will always be the ideological tyrant elitist party -and will have no chance of winning the White House back. In fact, I don’t think they will have it in 2016; unless, Marco Rubio runs for the presidency. But, please fire Karl Rove, for the love of God, how idiotic you have to be to associate Mitt Romney with G. W Bush….

Here’s Rush’s quotes about why they lost 2012 elections:

“I went to bed last night thinking, ‘we’re outnumbered,'” he said. “I went to bed last night thinking we’d lost the country. I don’t know how else you look at this. The first wave of exit polls came in at five o’clock. I looked at it, and I said … ‘this is utter BS, and if it isn’t, then we’ve lost the country.’-Rush Limbaugh.-Yes, Mr. Limbaugh, you’re outnumbered…

“In a nation of children, Santa Claus wins.” –Rush Limbaugh.-Again, yes Sr., they are, but what the GOP/Conservatives have done for the majority the last five decades…?

And here’s my take:

Time to blame and who should be blame for the presidential lost…? The GOP/Conservatives ideological elitism has been pushing the wrong messages. It was so bad that not even 30 million of Republicans voted for Romney, despite all the money they put campaigning for the GOP tickets.

Main-stream media and informal media all agreed on one thing: it is appropriate to say the Republican Party is dominated by ideological elitism of “principals and values” of its conservative wing. This is in addition to the GOP’s extreme radical wing that lives inside the belly of the beast: the very Congress is unable to move away from its radical political rigidity.

As the ever changing America’s demographics and economic facts shifted in favor of a more “benign party”, as the conservatives, Rush Limbaugh likes to called it, “the St Claus party”, they won’t win the presidency. Yes, one can say openly, they are “Santa’s party” but they brought a gift of a second term to the majority. The Democrats are the real winners, even if Obama has not solid optimal national approval for his first term results.

In the mean time, for more than five decades, the GOP/Conservatives has been stubbornly retrieving farther into their own ideological sublime corner of ethnocentric-America’s view while being careless and lying to the majority populace.

The truth is that for many Americans, the GOP/Conservative emblem, the so called “American values and principals,” is a luxury concept for the country’s rugged economic landscape. This emblem is more a semantic rhetoric and no longer plays well in the lives of the common denominators. Particularly today with Health care that takes a bigger chunk than general income taxes out of million’s paychecks. Wage stagnation is a bigger hazard to blue-collar workers than inflation.

Even more for the increasing declines of the Middle- class-income is another menace that won’t go away. Millions of parents feel more anxious about the cost of college than the national crime rate. Americans in general are more likely to be irritated about Washington’s beneficial relationship with big business-lobbyist than about the expansion of big government alone. The government for the common denominator (big chunk of Romney 47%) is the only way out to a hazardous economic situation.

The current GOP/Conservatives did not look, nor work with the increasing hybrid-race of all colors and creeds in the American population. The GOP/Conservatives cannot earn the heart and minds by shoveling “principals and values” while the majority today are being deprived of their basics right to better themselves.

Since Obama entered the national politics, the GOP/Conservative saw him as a threat to their political “principals and values” and understood the implications. Most conservative radio-talk show and TV began a process of every day public demeaning of the “free-takers”, “free-loaders”, of the people of St Claus, obviously, alienating and marginalizing themselves even more. The GOP/Conservatives has become the party of elitist and ideologically advert to compromised with the needs of the majority.

The fact is the changing racial demographics of the country is expected to impact the political-status of white majority by 2050, this was a key influence on Obama’s election results. The GOP/Conservatives old deco-theologian semantic language of “values and principals” don’t appeal anymore to the American Hispanics; the gay population, food-stamps-takers, unemployed educated young people, women who are pro-choice, new-immigrants, “freebie-lovers” and Romney’s 47% “government free-riders”. Scarcity and economic insecurity has become more obvious to people in general.

Way to go, my conservative friends… no wonder why they lost the ticket. Frankly, Mitt Romney is a decent man and he could have been the right candidate and a great leader for the country but not with the GOP/Conservative elitism baking him up for all the wrong reasons.

As we witnessed this election, the GOP/Conservative cannot sell their traditional “American values and principals” that once was America’s foundation. These “values and principals” are not something edible, or touchable, or socially unifying concepts in times of economic decline, job insecurity and uncertainty. The “principals and values” of the GOP conservative emblem sounds ideological and extreme for the majority of the American people, and it is time to redefine their political bases.

]]>usaworldgazeifwt_marco-rubioAmerica’s Choice for President: Mitt Romney or Barack Obamahttps://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/americas-choice-for-president-mitt-romney-or-barack-obama/
Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:44:46 +0000http://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/?p=631Continue reading →]]>“I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”― Thomas Jefferson

“I believe America’s prosperity was built on the strength of our middle class. We don’t succeed when a few at the top do well while everyone else struggles to get by — we’re better off when everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules.”

“Change is an America where we reduce our deficit by cutting spending where we can, and asking the wealthiest Americans to go back to the income tax rates they paid when Bill Clinton was president.” . . . “The folks at the very top don’t need another champion in Washington. The people who need a champion in Washington are the Americans whose letters I read at night; the men and women I meet on the trail every day.

Obama’s proletarians: “The cooks and cleaning staff working overtime at a Las Vegas hotel. The furniture worker retraining for a career in biotechnology at age 55. The teacher who’s forced to spend less time with each student in her crowded classroom. Her kids, who dream of becoming something great. Every small business owner trying to expand and do right by his or her employees — all of these Americans need a champion in Washington.” Read more here…

How these fallowing quotes are related to Mitt Romney’s ideas for the nation?:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” –The United States Declaration of Independence

“To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.”― Thomas Jefferson

“If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as a sorry state as the souls who live under tyranny.”― Thomas Jefferson

Romney America exceptionalism: “America is a place where freedom rings. It is a place where we can discuss our differences without fear of any consequence worse than criticism, where we can believe in whatever creed or religion we choose, where we can pursue our dreams no matter how small or grand. It is a place that not only cherishes freedom, but is willing to fight to defend it. These are the qualities that define us.

America is a land of opportunity. But lately, for too many Americans, opportunity has not exactly come knocking. We’ve been mired in an economic slowdown that has left millions of our fellow citizens unemployed. The consequences in dreams shattered, lives disrupted, plans deferred, and hopes dimmed can be found all around us.

It hasn’t always been this way. It certainly doesn’t have to be this way in the future. We’re all in this together. And together we can emerge from these troubles.”

“Let us remember our history. We have accomplished so much, both in the world and at home. We’ve defeated tyrannies. We’ve lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. We’ve transformed our own society into a more perfect union. We’ve created a land of freedom and prosperity. The problems we need to overcome now are not bigger than we are. We can defeat them. I am offering real change and a real choice.” Read more here…

Whose vision do you find more compelling for your final vote?You be the Judge.

]]>usaworldgazepresidentePost-Election 2012: Benghazi-Watergate Awaits…https://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/2012/10/25/post-election-2012-benghazi-watergate-await/
Thu, 25 Oct 2012 17:26:12 +0000http://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/?p=613Continue reading →]]>“You know, posting something on Facebook is not in and of itself evidence, and I think it just underscores how fluid the reporting was at the time and continued some time to be,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters in Washington.

Today, a couple of weeks after the Benghazi event, and in the middle of a presidential election, Barack Obama, the President of the United States has a sinister Watergate blood on his hands to deal with whether reelected or as a civilian man. This unfortunate killing of four Americans under the watch of Obama’s administration is not even comparable to the Nixon scandal that cost him an impeachment and out of the White House. Jay Carney, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and many others of Obama’s administration, including the president appears to had lied to the nation and to the world arguing that the attacks was due to an idiotic Internet movie about Mohammed.

Obama, the Commander-in-Chief of the nation knows well how many cats are in the bag but presidential politics took priorities over the “expandable” bloody Americans killing. Some say that Mr. Obama after two hours of the attacks that lasted seven hours while being briefing and sipping a hot cocoa decided to go to bed to be rested for the following day’s trip to engage with David Letterman in Las Vegas.

Then, days later, under these premises of Benghazi’s assault, it was thought of as something that can be deleted and put under the Oval’s rug to allow the election to move “forward”, smooth and invisible to most of the American people. The last golden-broche was claimed by the Secretary of States, Hillary Clinton taking the blame for the killings arguing that in fact it was an a terrorist attacks but there was nothing we could do. Here are some of the first lies told to the nation that now we know as an untrue:

The Administration said they had no feasible intelligence. (They had plenty, unmanned drones flying over the compound)

The Administration said they provided adequate protection. (They did not)

The Administration, in a rush, apologized to Islam in a video. They stated that the attack was caused by the Internet video. (It wasn’t truth; it was all pre-planned on the Jihadist anniversary of 9-11)

The Administration says it was a spontaneous riot-mob outside the building. (There was neither a mob nor any spontaneity, only RPG and 24-5 group of armed Jihadist claiming the American executive’s lives)

The Administration has said that they had impaired al Qadea (it has not happened, they live in 32 countries and are well armed promoting more attacks on U.S. soil and its people)

This blows a hole in everything the President and the vice-president stand for when questioned by Paul Ryan Romney during the debate. In other words, they lied knowingly and willingly to the American people, to the families of the victims, for weeks while the transitional presidential election continues as if nothing happens.

Now we know of plenty of e-mails and information disclosed, including real time pictures of the horrifying killings taken by unmanned drones that were sent to the States Intelligence Services and dropped in the White House’s Situation room. This video is available out there in the hands of Obama’s administration but in somehow is not yet available to the Congress, presumable because is unclassified sensitive information of not clear evidence.

The President and his campaign have traveled the country since the Democratic National Convention, slinging colorful bandages of “Osama Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive.” The current administration wanted Americans to think that “Al Qaeda is on its heels.” But now we know that this is not true. One can see the evidence in the Middle East slogan during the riots desecrating the American flag that shout ““Obama, Obama… there is thousands Osama’s… “Obama, Obama… there is thousands Osama’s…

The murder of the U.S. ambassador crumbles Obama’s narratives of the house of cards and this might be the next big pivot for Obama’s political contenders to paved their ways and further their political obstruction on Obama’s next four years (if reelected) making it impossible for him to govern the nation.

Here I’m including the possibility of Benghazi-Watergate impeachment that it might be on its way as soon as the election is done. Readers must think about the gridlock between both houses and will continue to worsen, Benghazi will not go away….. Think about Obama’s un-wiliness to work with republicans and vice-versa, and think about what this Benghazi-Watergate will do to the next four years of his presidency, albeit to the nation. Doubtless, Benghazi cover-up is a real mess…

]]>usaworldgazeimpeachm2Post-Debate in Denver Obama went ranting on Romney saying he is not for Real, he is a Liar…https://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/post-debate-in-denver-obama-went-ranting-on-romney-saying-he-is-not-for-real-he-is-a-liar/
Sun, 07 Oct 2012 17:44:28 +0000http://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/?p=585Continue reading →]]>“In fact, as Faulkner reminds us, the past is never dead and buried-it isn’t even past.” –Obama in Dreams from My Father.

…and yet, Mitt Romney stunted Obama’s main-stream-media with his substantiated, political zingers debate… that even the weird liberal guy who donated $1millon to Obama’s Super-PAC said that “I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Obama looks like he DOES need a teleprompter” —Bill Maher. And then, Matt Latimer states: “Bill Clinton was not there to coddle him”…) (Read more here)

The first time I got a bloody nose as a kid, I felt powerless, scorned and humiliated the following day. I had no other tool for personal vendetta other than to rant my frustration with my friends. Of course, I was looking for sympathy and some understanding; even though I knew well that I got beaten up for bragging too much excess egotistic-cockiness. I underestimated my opponent as slow and weak…. I was wrong.

This is my analogy of the post-presidential debate and particularly when Barack Obama went to the Denver, Colorado and Wisconsin rally mouthing jokes as a continuation of his desire for a second-serving at the White House. Clearly, Obama is still reeling from the blow Mitt Romney gave him at the presidential debate and he’s feeling spiritually scorned after Mitt Romney called him on his first four years of failed economic policies.

But more than failed economics, this debate also impacted the president’s ego like nothing before. Being the most respected and powerful man on earth of unrivaled social-objector for four years and getting pounded right in front of millions of viewers (about 65M). My friends, you don’t win a presidential debate by being a policy expert. Obama flunked his first presidential debate by violating all the basics of a good debate. Here are some of those basics:

Outline moral values by contrasting them with that of opponent’s.

Empathy and enthusiasm is a must connection.

Transmit the message clearly and in a simply form for all audience.

Don’t be faked and force smile at the opponent. Speaks what you believe in.

Project authenticity of ideas that the audiences can mirrored and identify with.

Obama failed to do any of this. Instead he talked about policy details (again) in a professorial style, perhaps, as a defense mechanism to avoid being bullied around by an aggressive business man who unleashed a barrage of four years of repressed punches. Barack Obama’s seemed to be having a bad flashback to the little boy he was once which left him with an egg-sized lump on the side of his head by an Indonesian kid while living with his step-father, Lolo Soetero.

Clearly the president was unable to defend himself against Romney’s direct piercing eyes and fast speech that overwhelmed him and resulted in painful egg-sized-lumps. However, this first debate unfolded something never seen before with Mr. Obama and that was his inability to defend his point that stunted the Obama main-stream-media. In my view, the second upcoming debate surely will show a different Obama but the damage is already grass-rooted and imprinted in peoples mind and it’s not easy to forget.

On the other hand, the “smoke and mirrors” of the CNN’s anchors and political pundits sat watching the debate wit frozen shocked-faces by the end of the show: “what the hell happens here…?”. They could not believe what they saw; even the staunch democrat boldly guy, James Carville had no choice but to admit that “Obama did not want to be there”. Let’s remember that these guys of CNN are all Obama lovers since day one and would all fight for him to the death. (That’s the way they make their payroll…)

Mr. Obama looked angry and had a skirmish smiled devoid of sincerity during the harsh exchanges and he refused to look Romney in the face when he politely accused him of four years of failed policies. He was left with no alternative but to recoil his attention and hide in his notes-taking while Romney keep exposing his arguments. Obama looked lost sometimes gazing at the camera in a lecturing professorial style to seem, consciously or unconsciously, presidential but to no avail, the load of… horse-dung was too much to shake it up.

Clearly, Obama showed an inability to call Romney out on his policies. Why didn’t he call him out on so many things shown in the anti-Romney ads? This is something that I will never know, only Michelle Obama know the truth, she knows her man. Didn’t he do his prep work before the debate? I think not: “they’re making me do my homework”? He said jokingly in an interview (Read more about his self-confessed laziness)

Was Obama being too confidant (presidential cockiness went to his head, perhaps?) on his strategy and his team miscalculated Romney’s chivalry? Was Obama bothered to be on the stage facing his most dear foe: a fat-cat evil-rich-corporate-capitalist as Mr. Romney? That’s how he seemed to behave in the view of one the most important debates of his life; the entire nation was looking forward to seeing these two men on stage. Perhaps this debate might be one of his most defining moment since it is already archived in the history book as one of the worst-epitomes of Obama’s public debate.

The lack of Obama’s energy that night to counter-argue, what most people believe Obama does best as master orator, was exemplified the next morning when Obama was back in his comfort zone away from his rival and free to call Romney a liar and “not being truthful with the American people”. He nuanced in Denver’ stage with a sardonic anger: “We had our first debate last night, and when I got onto the stage, I met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be Mitt Romney. He does not want to be held accountable for the real Mitt Romney’s decisions and what he’s been saying for the last year.”

I find this rant undignified and improper for a man who is the current president accusing a rival who might be the next president of not being “real” and claiming to be someone he is not. Why did he make such ranting? Was the little boy with an egg-sized-lump on his head upset and throwing a tantrum?

In his second term, if reelected Obama will face the truth of his own needs and lack of inner aggression visible in the debate; he will need to be able to transform his political appeasement actions into a more directly and feisty power against a recalcitrant and gridlock Congress/Senate. I hope that his fathers-void and abandonment along with his mothers psychological injuries free him to exercise his full power against his opponents. (You might be wonder what Mom/Dad had to do with the debate…?)

Nevertheless, right now there is a polarized ideological political dilemma in America and it was clearly defined during the first debate in which Romney’s desire for the White House was shown, visible and commendable. The man knows his business stuff and I hope the GOP/Te Party will let him do the right thing without constraining him into a straight jacket.

Now, the American people need to solve this imprinted dilemma in their minds through their civic votes and it is apparent that we have a fight between Romney’s Social-Pragmatism and American constitutional morality vs. Obama’s plasticity of social humanism-and idealism. The choices between this binary-duality for the nation next’s Commander-in-Chief has become much more acute and will impact the nation for better or worse.

“ROMNEY: And in one year, you provided $90 billion in breaks to the green energy world.

Now, I like green energy as well, but that’s about 50 years’ worth of what oil and gas receives. And you say Exxon and Mobil. Actually, this $2.8 billion goes largely to small companies, to drilling operators and so forth.

ROMNEY: But, you know, if we get that tax rate from 35 percent down to 25 percent, why that $2.8 billion is on the table. Of course it’s on the table. That’s probably not going to survive you get that rate down to 25 percent.

But don’t forget, you put $90 billion, like 50 years’ worth of breaks, into — into solar and wind, to Solyndra and Fisker and Tester and Ener1. I mean, I had a friend who said you don’t just pick the winners and losers, you pick the losers, all right? So this — this is not — this is not the kind of policy you want to have if you want to get America energy secure.” Read more.

]]>usaworldgaze119770_600debateThe Four-Horsemen of The Clash of Civilizations is Unleashed in the Middle Easthttps://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/the-four-horsemen-of-the-clash-of-civilizations-is-unleashed-in-the-middle-east/
Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:47:46 +0000http://usaworldgaze.wordpress.com/?p=552Continue reading →]]>(…the American flags are on fire today all over the Middle East, and it is not about money, or political ideology, it is Culture -with the big “C”….!)

FOUR RIDERS, (PUBLIC FILE) AND THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS?Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death

Right now, my friends, the world is irrupting on fire against the U.S.A. from the British embassy in Tunisia to Bangladesh and all over the Islamic Middle East with more than 20 nations accounted for and burning thing up, killing and vandalizing anything that resembles U.S. Western culture. None of this will bring anything good for the forth coming years in U.S. Foreign Policy. Whoever takes the White House after Nov 6, 2012 will have a full plate.

Samuel Huntington told us, he advised us to be preventive in foreign affairs when geopolitics deals with distinctive cultures. Anyone who has read the book knows that we’re beginning to see that Samuel was right on target.

It is not my intention to dramatize the issue here but I believe that The Four-Horsemen of The Clash of Civilizations was unleashed four days ago with unpredictable fury. It was fueled by culture-religious and ignorance; whether it be by the ill-rage, extremist, hatred of the Islamic radicals or by the stupidity of a of dope head in California’s film portraying an “insane-sex-maniac Mohammad” that went spiraling across the Middle East.

We must remember that the killing, riots and ill-hatred for the U.S. is all culturally man-made as Samuel’s geographical lines tell us the separation between “us” and “them” is a sharp and clear distinction. There are no divine or green alien entities here no matter how much the main-stream-media butters up the issue. It is all about cultural-construct ideas as to how the world must be whether for peace progress or war. Of course, the U.S. is the richest country in the world (despite the fact that we still have third-world-countries in our own backyard) yet we own the responsibility of worldwide order.

So what we’ve seen these past days shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone; the attacks against the U.S. is here to stay and will continue to come by peoples’ rage, hatred, or envy. The U.S. geopolitics is at the mercy of the very humanness intolerance because of its own secular deeds as a bastion of freedom and democracy around the world. Despite its responsibility, the U.S. still is an independent nation and has the right of sovereignty to take care of its national interest around the world as other nations have their own rights. Of course, because of this wealth, we get the biggest invoice bill in the world.

Let’s see now what the man has to say about this new rivalry that has emerged recently in Clash of Civilizations and were all of this will take us:

“World politics is entering a new phase, and intellectuals have not hesitated to proliferate visions of what it will be-the end of history, the return of traditional rivalries between Nation states, and the decline of the Nation state from the conflicting pulls of tribalism and globalism, among others. Each of these visions catches aspects of the emerging reality. Yet they all miss a crucial, indeed a central, aspect of what global politics is likely to be in the coming years.

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.” ( Huntington, Pp. 22-23)

What Samuel is saying here is precisely what we’ve seen these past days and it’s beginning to have a nasty effect between the Cultural-axis that divide geographical civilizations, particularly, the oldest civilizations of the Middle East against Western’s culture civilization.

Let’s remember for a moment that after Russia fell and the disintegrated socialist blocks of Eastern Europe left the U.S. alone with no ideological competitors. The neoliberal model that won the battled and the ideological-communist fight of Cold War, no longer applied to us. Now, the cultural-fault-lines of civilization is drawn today by extremism and muslin terrorist organizations becoming the substitute for the cold war.

Radical muslin faith put a big bite on us and lefted a horrid footprints in the fatal attack of 9/11. And readers must understand that the U.S. is no longer fighting communism but something a lot more powerful, which is deep-rooted in the psyche of cultural-Islamic faith. Don’t take my word for it, take Samuel’s who spend a life time on the subject.

Census indicates that about 23% of the world population is Muslims. Of these 1.6 billion, 62% live in Asia-Pacific, 20% in the Middle East-North Africa, 15% in Sub-Saharan Africa, around 3% in Europe and 0.3% in the America. Of course, with such a large population there is discontent among Islamic population.Although, I must say I don’t see Christians lunching a worldwide jihad-crusade against the muslin world other then to eradicate dictators, purged terrorism and then turn back the keys to their rightful owners.

In view of the past world’s history and looking at the increasing Muslin- population all over the world, there is a great deal of concern for increasing basic necessities amongst the haves and haves nots. For example, the Middle East, South Africa and impoverish Asian countries of the Pacific Gulf as well as dozen of leftist Latin-American countries.

Scarcity of goodies such as food, schooling, technology, jobs for social mobility became more acute in impoverish countries and when religious faith is the ultimate comfort it also does a great deal of damage. Syria-as other countries- proves to be deadly on this with already more than 20 thousands deaths by its government and going up in numbers as we know that Bashar al-Assad and his minority Alawite-faith is an offshoot of Shia Islam. Shia Iran has been Mr. Assad’s staunchest ally supporters as Iranians admitted openly days ago with no shame of the massive killing.

In the Middle East the players are divided into sectarian tribal groups: Sunnis, Shia, Alawite, Ismailis as many others and they all relied on their Islamic faith for comfort. As the poor revolutionaries of Centro America did once in the eighties, not because tribalism, but because their fervent faith on Liberation Theology leaving a trail of more than a millions death.

We see that social change does not come solely because of politics or propping socialized revolutionary government for social improvement in the Middle East, but it is also religious faith. We have witnessed this faith at work during the past days that a stupid symbolic insult to their Mohammed prophet was enough to spark rage against Western secularized-culture.

One can say that the Western hemisphere today is divided between Social-humanism, distribution of government wealth -such as most Europeans nations, and Pragmatic-liberalism as Canada and United States were economic distribution is measured by social stratifies needs. Whereas, the Middle East and its theocratic societies plays its own political games between the haves and haves not’s based first, on religious-faith then politic.

But in contraposition to these two western model, curios enough, the richness of Saudi Arabia shows the opposite direction were modernization, politics and religion are fused into one for the upper class/middle class do to the excess of crude-petro oil. However their Islamic religion still plays the most important role in everybody’s life.

Below is another interesting quote of Samuel’s clash that outlines some of his points that I have touched upon. And also, I’m living a PDF reading of The Clash of Civilization if interested in doing more reading about fault-lines of civilization:

“Some Westerners… have argued that the West does not have problems with Islam but only with violent Islamist extremists. Fourteen hundred years of history demonstrate otherwise.” ― Samuel P. Huntington

“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.” ― Samuel P. Huntington

“Islam’s borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilization whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.” ― Samuel P. Huntington

“Expectations should not always be taken as reality; because you never know when you will be disappointed.” ― Samuel P. Huntington

“In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral and it is dangerous.” ― Samuel P. Huntington

“Collective will supplants individual whim” ― Samuel P. Huntington

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Samuel Phillips Huntington was an influential American political scientist whose works covered multiple sub-fields of political science. He gained wider prominence through his Clash of Civilizations thesis of a post-Cold War new world order.